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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
JUNE
2017
Key to the ongoing success of the Original
Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is the
industry-leading expertise and experience
of its management team. Parkhouse, a
professional engineer, himself has 40 years’
experience in the mining industry, from coal
to gold, and has worked as far afield as
China, Mozambique, and Colombia.
He is joined by George Sturgeon as
business development manager, Ameen
Peters as regional sales manager, Kiran
Singh as production manager, and Active
Ngwenya as sales administrator. “In the
meantime, we would like to reassure all of
our customers that it is business as usual,”
Parkhouse stresses.
Parkhouse will ensure that Aury Africa
has good representation in Africa, with
the initial focus being on Zambia and
Mozambique. “Our mission is to provide
our clients with reliable and cost-effective
solutions to their production challenges,
supported by professional aftersales
service teams,” he comments. In addition,
Parkhouse will strive to forge a closer
working relationship with both Aury China
and Aury Australia.
Aury Africa produces a complete range
of high-quality vibrating screens for the coal,
gold, and minerals-processing sectors. This
consists of banana, horizontal, circular, high-
frequency, and flip-flop vibrating screens.
It also supplies a range of exciters to
fit most OEM screen types. Consumable
products available include centrifuge
baskets, polyurethane (PU) wedge wire
Mining industry supplier expands
Aury Africa aims to become a leading manufacturer and supplier
of high-performance mineral-processing equipment to the African
mining industry by 2022. This is the vision of the company’s new
management team, led by director Sydney Parkhouse.
panels, intertank/interstage cylinder screens
for classification, sieve bends, static panels
for separation.
“A significant competitive advantage
for Aury Africa, and a major cost-saver for
our clients, is our capability to manufacture
these PU wedge wire panels locally,”
Parkhouse points out. These are available
at a fraction of the price of similar imported
products panels.
Commenting on the current state of the
mining industry, Parkhouse is optimistic that
the green shoots appearing in commodity
sectors such as copper and iron ore bodes
well for the industry as a whole. “We will
ramp up our production in conjunction with
our clients’ anticipation of meeting the
demand for commodities globally."
Aury Africa has an extensive stockholding of
PU wedge wire panels.